Irma

catmandu said:
Salty, if no one has told you recently: you are a Saint! I know what caring for a loved one takes. Be safe, and do what is best.
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Thanks. Appreciate it.
 
Nah, you will probably see worse than we will. I'm in Haines City. We're up on the ridge, so not much risk of flooding. Wind could be bad, but I'll board the windows. We made it through all 3 storms in 2004 without much damage, and I just got a new roof last year.

I think the house will be okay.

Best of luck. Tough days ahead.
 
Looks like my cars and condos in ft Lauderdale will be ok as a result of the shift. Thank god my mom closed on her condo in Naples. Hope everyone on the west cost stays safe.
 
Good to hear Mulligan. Your mom isn't in Naples is she? Gonna get nasty there looks like.
 
Salty said:
I'm not as bad off as you probably. I'm in land o lakes
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Hang in there Salty. I'm just South of Lutz, you should be fine in LOL. I'm certainly not leaving. If this thing doesn't go out in the gulf, it will lose a lot of power before it gets here. There will be a lot of clean-up and some damage to homes, but no tidal surge in our area. Not really a life threatening situation here, unless you're unlucky enough to have a tree fall on you!
 
Salty said:
Well the 5pm track is even worse. I'm not sure what to do now. Now it looks like SC or NC is the best destination, but I don't trust that it won't shift again... and the wife really does not want to go.
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Stay with her and 'hang tough'. Chances are you can ride it out.
 
If the forecast track holds true, Big Pine Key is going to get demolished. My sister lives in Williston, but she's not there right now. She's supposed to be heading home. We'll see if she gets there.
 
Caramon13 said:
Stupid...and unnecessary. Hell I'm almost right in the current track here in FL and I still don't have a mandatory evacuation order.

Overreaction much?
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Yeah, that's going to do more damage than good. We are already flooded with Floridians who are evacuating, the best thing Georgians can do is to stay close to home.
 
FastEddieB said:
My daughter canceled her flight to Italy early this morning.

Turns out it departed early from Miami and her friends are on their way.

So it goes...
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Tough one Eddie. She with you, or somewhere safe?
 
I am keeping a close watch on the track just in case it turns and heads for the high desert.

Gas here just went from 2.19 to 2.40. Diesel went up 20 cents.
 
Well considering my hangar is three miles from the beach I departed.

But with the recent west track I'll have to go even further west :( was a nice visit with family for two nights but tomorrow I'll be flying my bird even further

I will say the traffic over i75 last night was INSANE I'm glad I wasn't on the ground evac'ing
 
mscard88 said:
Tough one Eddie. She with you, or somewhere safe?
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Yep. With us with her dog and two cats in N GA for the duration. Her apartment is right on the intercoastal in Ft. Lauderdale.

Looks like it might turn out OK there. Not so much the SW Florida coast.

They had the track so right for so long, but they always did warn that the exact timing of the turn to the north was problematic.

Cuba is getting hammered right about now, but Google Earth shows the area of the landfall is very sparsely populated.
 
The forecast track is shifting to the west again. The only part of Georgia that should be evacuated are the barrier islands and right on the ocean.
 
Zeldman said:
Holy cow...!!!!! Thanks for the reminder, I was supposed to take that pill at the top of the hour..!!!
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At least I'm good for something. Lol

That's what POA does. Keeps ya from doing constructive things and other stuff we should be doing.
 
Ran into a nice couple from Palm Beach today fleeing the hurricane. They flew their 2016 C-182 all the way to Durant, OK. I think they'll be safe from the 'cane in OK, lol. They left a Waco and an Apache behind to weather the storm.
 
Well, I'm bugging out as soon as I can get the wife and dogs packed up. The latest forecast is not good. I learned something new yesterday as well, my insurance policy pays up to $500 in expenses to relocate the plane out of the path of a storm, not that cost was a decision factor, it's nice to know.
 
For all those in Sarasota and other points in the path of this thing, good luck, do what you can to be safe, this is going to be ugly.
 
Salty said:
Well, I'm bugging out as soon as I can get the wife and dogs packed up. The latest forecast is not good. I learned something new yesterday as well, my insurance policy pays up to $500 in expenses to relocate the plane out of the path of a storm, not that cost was a decision factor, it's nice to know.
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I found that out about mine a few days before leaving too they cover a nice amount that I should come no where near to evacuate. I went to family but nice to know the fuel and parking can be reimbursed for getting it away from the storm
 
Pretty interesting how dead the always busy South Florida airspace has becomeIMG_8218.PNG
 
Latest track below:

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I evacuated with the wife and pets to Tenn. I noticed Warner Robbins GA on the trip and they have a GA museum. Is it worth visiting?
 
FloridaPilot said:
I evacuated with the wife and pets to Tenn. I noticed Warner Robbins GA on the trip and they have a GA museum. Is it worth visiting?
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They moved a few planes recently due to budget cuts, but it's still pretty neat. It's about 15 minutes from I-75 and it's free to visit.

It's not really a GA museum though. The static displays are military planes.
 
I planned to tank up at home, but the pump was broke. We had nearly full tanks though. So new plan was to stop in bacon county ga for gas and continue on to an airport in NC. Taking off at home was a bit squirrelly, very gusty crosswinds. Rest of flight was fine until I started decent into AMG. It kept getting worse and worse the lower we got. It was so bad I didn't have enough rudder to keep it lined up and we were getting tossed around really badly. I aborted at about 100 feet and there was no way I was even trying again. We still had more than 2 hours of gas, so I started climbing again and looking for alternatives. AMG was supposedly 7knot gusting xwind, but I already knew that was inaccurate. All the airports nearby were showing 15G20+ with double digit xwinds. I was freaking out at that point. Decided I couldn't trust the forecasts so I just wanted on the ground. So I found the closest airport with a runway into the wind and we landed in Vidalia with no issues. They put the bird in a hangar and we apparently got the last room in town.
 

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Glad to hear you're safe. The storm should be greatly weakened by the time it gets up to Vandalia...
 
Salty said:
Made it to vadalia Georgia. It was not the plan, but I'm not going back up. Will post more when we are settled.
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Glad you got out Salty. Relax and get some Vidalia onions. :biggrin:

Wrapped in bacon!

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Salty said:
I planned to tank up at home, but the pump was broke. We had nearly full tanks though. So new plan was to stop in bacon county ga for gas and continue on to an airport in NC. Taking off at home was a bit squirrelly, very gusty crosswinds. Rest of flight was fine until I started decent into AMG. It kept getting worse and worse the lower we got. It was so bad I didn't have enough rudder to keep it lined up and we were getting tossed around really badly. I aborted at about 100 feet and there was no way I was even trying again. We still had more than 2 hours of gas, so I started climbing again and looking for alternatives. AMG was supposedly 7knot gusting xwind, but I already knew that was inaccurate. All the airports nearby were showing 15G20+ with double digit xwinds. I was freaking out at that point. Decided I couldn't trust the forecasts so I just wanted on the ground. So I found the closest airport with a runway into the wind and we landed in Vidalia with no issues. They put the bird in a hangar and we apparently got the last room in town.
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Glad you guys are safe! Hope you don't return home to too much damage.

We're about as ready as we can get. Windows are boarded, we have sandbags to close off the bottoms of the doors where rain blew in during the 2004 storms, all the loose stuff is in the garage or shop or tack room, drew lots of extra water for the horses, have some gas for the gennies, moved the vehicles away from trees and spread them around the property, charged up batteries for the ham radio, and loaded a few magazines for the AR-15. :)

First time I've used Plylox clips to board the windows. I cut marine grade 1/2" plywood after the 2004 storms and stashed them in the barn rafters. The Plylox clips made installing them easy. My son and I did the whole job in 45 minutes, and much of that was spent dragging out the ladders and putting them away.

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Now we're just settling down and waiting.
 
Good for already having your plywood cut and ready to go, it amazes me the run on plywood at the building supply stores..........what happened to the plywood from the last storm ?
 
Looks like Irma is heading a bit to the West. Is it time to all go back to Miami?
 
biplanebob said:
Good for already having your plywood cut and ready to go, it amazes me the run on plywood at the building supply stores..........what happened to the plywood from the last storm ?
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People wait until the last minute, buy whatever cheap wood is left or they can afford, and then it's warped and worthless after the storm. They throw it away, then go through the same exercise all over again with the next storm.

I bought good quality treated wood when there were no storms on the way, took my time measuring and cutting it to fit on a nice Saturday afternoon, coated the boards with urethane, then stashed them away. I also picked up a couple packs of Plylox when they weren't in short supply and overpriced.

My neighbor worked half the day or more boarding up with an oddball mix of whatever boards he could find and sinking tapcons into his brick to mount them.
 
biplanebob said:
Good for already having your plywood cut and ready to go, it amazes me the run on plywood at the building supply stores..........what happened to the plywood from the last storm ?
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It's Florida. It rots. Who has room to store that much plywood properly for a decade until the next big storm?

I'm not convinced those plylocks will do much good. I used them to, but I always wondered about them
 
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